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Show 204 CORD G. BOWEN For Complainant ( R. Vol. 3 - pp. 495- 511.) He resides at Goodrich, Utah, and is a merchant. He is running a trading post and has lived in the San Juan country since 1878. He has not lived there continuously since that time. He is familiar with the San Juan River from Bloomfield, New Mexico, to Zonn's Canyon, a distance of possibly fifteen or twenty miles below Mexican Hat. Goodrich, Utah, is about two and on half miles below Mexican Hat on the San Juan River. R. 495- 496. He doesn't know of the Indians ever having used the San Juan River for trade or travel. He has not used the river for trade or travel himself and does not know of any navigation whatever on it. He doesn't maintain a ferry himself in connection with his trading post. He saw a boat on the river last winter ( 1928) and a boat when he was a boy about eight years old, forty- five years ago. He has never used the river for shipping supplies in or out from his trading post at Goodrich. Most of his supplies are brought in from Bluff, Utah, by wagon, also from Cortez and Gallup, New Mexico, and Durango, Colorado. He has never been on the river in a boat - just crossed back and forth. R. 497. The sand bars in the river are continually changing from place to place, shifting all the time. Jewett, New Mexico, is the place where he boated across the river. |